description whatever of uncoined gold or silver, currently passing in this Territory, or entering in any wise into the circulating medium of this Territory, with the intention to pass, utter, or put off the same, or permit, cause, or procure to be uttered or passed, with intention to defraud any person or persons, body politic or corporate, knowing the same to be counterfeit, and being thereof duly convicted, shall be punished by imprisonment in the Territorial prison for a term not less than one year nor more than fourteen years.

CHAPTER VIII.

CRIMES AND OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE.

SEC. 89. Every person having taken a lawful oath or made affirmation in any judicial proceeding, or in any other matter where by law an oath or affirmation is required, who shall swear or affirm, wilfully, corruptly, and falsely, in a matter material to the issue or point in question, or shall suborn any other person to swear or affirm as aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of perjury or subornation of perjury, as the case may be, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the Territorial prison for a term not less than one year nor more than fourteen years.

SEC. 90. Every person who by wilful and corrupt perjury, or surbornation of perjury, shall procure the conviction and execution of any innocent person, shall be deemed guilty of murder, and upon conviction thereof shall suffer the punishment of death.

SEC. 91. If any person or persons shall, directly or indirectly, give any sum of money, or any other bribe, present, or reward, or any promise, contract, obligation, or security, for the payment or delivery of any money, present, reward, or any other thing, to obtain or procure the opinion, judgment, or decree of any judge or justice of the peace, acting within this Territory, or to corrupt, induce, or influence such judge or justice of the peace to be more favorable to one side than the other, in any suit, matter or cause, pending, or to be brought before him or them; or shall directly or indirectly give any sum of money, present, or reward, or any promise, contract, obligation, or security for the payment or delivery of any money, present, or reward, or any other thing, to ob

tain, procure, or influence any member of the legislative assembly, or to incline, induce, or influence any such member of the legislative assembly to be more favorable to one side than the other on any question, election, matter, or thing pending, or to be brought before the legislature, or either house thereof, the person so giving any money, bribe, present, or reward, promise, contract, obligation, or security, with intent, and for the purpose aforesaid, and the judge, justice of the peace, or member of the legislative assembly, who shall accept or receive the same, shall be deemed guilty of bribery, and on conviction shall be punished by imprisonment in the Territorial prison for a term not less than one year, and shall be disqualified from holding any office of honor, trust, or profit in this Territory.

SEC. 92. If any person shall, directly or indirectly, give any sum of money, or any other bribe, present, or reward, or any promise, contract, or security for the payment of any money, present, or reward, or any other thing, to any judge, justice of the peace, sheriff, coroner, clerk, constable, jailor, attorney general, district or county attorney, member of the legislative assembly, or other officer, ministerial or judicial, or assessor (but such fees as are allowed by law), the person so giving and the officer so receiving any money, bribe, present, reward, promise, contract, obligation, or security, shall be deemed guilty of bribery, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the Territorial prison for a term not less than one year nor more than ten years, and shall be disqualified from holding any office of honor, trust, or profit in this Territory.

SEC. 93. Every person who shall offer or attempt to bribe any member of the legislative assembly, judge, justice of the peace, sheriff, coroner, clerk, constable, jailor, attorney general, district or county attorney, or other ministerial or judicial officer, or assessor, in any of the cases mentioned in the preceding sections; and every member of the legislative assembly, judge, justice of the peace, sheriff, coroner, clerk, constable, jailor, attorney general, district or county attorney, or other ministerial or judicial officer, or assessor, who shall propose or agree to receive a bribe in any of the cases mentioned in either of the two preceding sections, shall on conviction, be imprisoned in the Territorial prison for a term not less than five years nor more than ten years, and shall be disquali

fied from holding any office of honor, trust, or profit in this Territory.

SEC. 94. If any judge, justice of the peace, sheriff, coroner, clerk, recorder, or other public officer or assessor, or any person whosoever, shall steal, embezzle, corrupt, alter, withdraw, falsify, or avoid any record, process, charter, gift, grant, conveyance, bond, or contract, or shall knowingly and wilfully take off, discharge, or conceal any issue, forfeited recognizance, or other forfeiture, or shall forge, deface or falsify any document or instrument recorded, or any registered acknowledgment or certificate, or shall alter, deface, or falsify any minute, document, book, or any proceeding whatever of, or belonging to, any public officer in this Territory, the person so offending, and being thereof duly convicted, shall be punished by imprisonment in the Territorial prison for a term not less than one year nor more than ten years, and be fined in any sum not exceeding five thousand dollars.

SEC. 95. Every sheriff or jailor, or person who shall be guilty of wilful inhumanity or oppression to any prisoner under his care or custody, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding two thousand dollars, and shall be removed from office.

SEC. 96. If any officer whose office shall be abolished by law, or who after the expiration of the time for which he may be appointed or elected, or after he shall have resigned, or been legally removed from office, shall wilfully and unlawfully withhold or detain from his successor, or other person entitled thereunto by law, the records, papers, documents, or other writing appertaining or belonging to his office, or mutilate or destroy or take away the same, the person so offending shall, on conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the Territorial prison for a term not less than one year nor more than ten years. The provisions of this section shall apply to any person who shall have such records, documents, papers, or other writings in his, her, or their possession, and shall wilfully mutilate, destroy, withhold, or detain the same as aforesaid.

SEC. 97. Every person who shall falsely represent or personate another, and in such assumed character shall marry another, become bail or security for any party, in any proceeding civil or criminal, before any court or officer authorized to take such bail or surety, or confess any judgment, or acknowledge the execution of

any conveyance of real estate, or any other instrument which by law may be recorded, or do any other act in the course of any suit, proceeding, or prosecution, whereby the person so represented or personated may be made liable in any event to the payment of any debt, damages, costs, or sums of money, or his right or interest may. in any manner be affected, shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the Territorial prison for a term not less than one year nor exceeding two years, or by fine not exceeding five thousand dollars.

SEC. 98. Every person who shall falsely represent or personate another, and in such assumed character shall receive any money or valuable property of any description, intended to be delivered to the person so personated, shall, upon conviction, be punished in the same manner and to the same extent as for feloniously stealing the money or property so received.

SEC. 99. If any person shall knowingly and wilfully obstruct, resist, or oppose any sheriff, deputy sheriff, coroner, constable, marshal, policeman, or other officer of this Territory, or other person duly authorized serving or attempting to serve any law process or order of any court, judge, or justice of the peace, or any other legal process whatsoever, or shall assault or beat any such officer or person, duly authorized, in serving or executing, or attempting to serve or execute any order or process as aforesaid, or for having served or executed, or attempting to serve or execute the same, every person so offending shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, and imprisonment in the Territorial prison for a term not less than one year nor more than five years. Provided, Any officer or person that may assault or beat any individual, under color of his commission or authority, without lawful necessity so to do, shall, on conviction, suffer the same punishment.

SEC. 100. If any person or persons shall set at liberty or rescue any person who shall have been found guilty or convicted of a crime, the punishment of which is death, such person, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the Territorial prison for a term not less than one year nor more than fourteen years; and if any person or persons set at liberty or rescue any person who shall have been found guilty or convicted of a crime, the punishment of which is imprisonment in the Territorial prison, or in prison, the person so offending, on conviction thereof, shall be

sentenced to the same punishment that would have been inflicted on the person so set at liberty or rescued.

SEC. 101. If any person shall set at liberty or rescue any person who, before conviction, stands charged or committed for any capital offence, or any crime punishable in the Territorial prison, such person so offending shall, on conviction, be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, and imprisoned in the Territorial prison not less than one year nor exceeding ten years; and if the person rescued or set at liberty stands charged, committed, or convicted of any misdemeanor, or other offence punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both, the person convicted of such rescue or setting at liberty, shall suffer the same punishment that would have been inflicted on the person rescued or set at liberty, if he or she had been found guilty.

SEC. 102. If any sheriff, deputy sheriff, or jailor, or any person employed by them as a guard, shall fraudulently contrive, procure, aid, connive at, or otherwise voluntarily suffer the escape of any convict in custody, every such person, on conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment in the Territorial prison not less than one year nor more than ten years, and fined in a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars.

SEC. 103. If any person shall carry to any convict imprisoned or in custody or into any county jail, or other place where such convict may be confined, any tool, weapon, or other aid, with intent to enable such convict to escape such custody or confinement, whether such escape be effected or not, any person so offending, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or imprisonment in the Territorial prison not less than one year nor more than five years.

SEC. 104. If any person or persons shall rescue another in lawful custody, on civil process, such person or persons shall, on conviction, be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars.

SEC. 105. If any person shall aid or assist a prisoner, lawfully imprisoned or detained in custody for any offence against this Territory, or who shall be lawfully confined by virtue of any civil process, to make his or her escape from imprisonment or custody, though no escape be actually made; or if any person shall convey, or cause to be delivered to such prisoner, any disguise, instrument, or arms proper to facilitate the escape of such prisoner, any person